On Thursday evening, attracted by shrill cries of distress, a police pinnace in charge of P.C. Pyne made for a sampan in Causeway Bay, and arrived just in time to capture a Chinese, whose clothes were stained with blood, while within the boat a woman was found lying in a precarious condition, with three gashes on her face and her skull badly cut. The woman, who ally took possession of the great, building roved to be the prisoner's sister-in-law, was conveyed to the Govt. Civil Hospital, on the heights recently acquired by_purchase for the sum of £30,000. The Mount where her depositions were subsequently Austin Hotel is no more. It is now a taken. The prisoner is believed to be insane. It is believed he inflicted the wounds solitude, the silence in its long cornd being only broken by the occasional v on the woman with a chopper. of the military caretakers. This morning
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